Hello again, I have another misery here how to solve via batch file command. I have this text file that contains with space tab delimiters i.e. Apple<space tab>Orange<space tab>Kiwi results: Apple | Orange | Kiwi It should detect all the <space tab> no matter how long the columns will be and replaced by | Is that possible? Thanks in advanced! -Lee-

No idea about <space tab> [sic] but for a TAB, 09hex, delimited try this: =============================== @echo off > newfile & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (my.txt) do ( set S=%%a set S=!S: =^|! >> newfile echo !S! ) ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

use a good tool for string parsing. if you can download gawk for windows c:\test> gawk "BEGIN{OFS=\"|\"}{$1=$1}1" file GNU win32 packages | Gawk

Thanks again Mech but it didn't work on my end withy your sample. I dont have the results when I try to run it. No Error or file 'newfile' created.

Try this line by itself. If you don't get a NEWFILE then I have no clue. @echo off > newfile & setLocal enableDELAYedexpansion ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2